Novelty events

  • Watermelon Eating Contest
  • Melon Olympics
  • Kimberley Cowboy Challenge
  • Stockmans Challenge
  • Rescue Challenge
  • Barrel o'Bikes Challenge
  • Haystacking Challenge
See the schedule for further details
​of the 2021 Novelty Events.



Ceres Farms Watermelon Eating Competition 
Eat as much watermelon as you can within the time ​allowed, no use of hands, so be prepared to get messy!
Ord Irrigation Cooperative Watermelon Olympics
 ​Instructions 
  1. Start the siphon and show water.
  2. Collect your melons.
  3. Get your melon safety boots on at the start of the course.
  4. Make your way to the end of the course.
  5. Throw an entire melon into the target drum - rim shots and partial melons not counted!
  6. If you run out of throwing melons, you must return to the start while wearing your melon boots to collect more ammunition.
  7. Return to the start of the course and repeat for the win!
​Argyle Engineering Kimberley Cowboy Challenge
Competitors must be 18 years of age or over. 2 Competitors per heat.
Judges will be at each event change-over point to make sure it has been correctly completed.
If the task has not been completed, the contestant will be directed to return to the task until given the OK by the judge!
  1. Get out of bed.
  2. Begin in your swag with boots and hat off before whistle goes to start race.
  3. Get dressed.
  4. Put boots and hat on, roll up swag and do up 1 strap.
  5. Have a wash.
  6. Run over to bucket and wash whole face with water
  7. Eat brekky.
  8.  Run over to table, eat all the food on your plate and drink all of your ‘Bloody Mary’.

    You must complete eating all of your breakfast!
    If there is too much spillage, the Judge can issue more food. Food cannot be spat out while on course. If food is spat out you must return and eat brekky again.

  9. Load the ute.
  10. Carry your ‘poddy calf’ carefully and put it in the back of the ute.
  11. Feed out.
  12. Roll a round bale to the designated area, and back again.
  13. Go fencing.
  14. Hammer 2 pickets into ground with dolly using at least 5 hits per picket. Place dolly back on the ground and head to next obstacle.
  15. Go mustering
  16. Get your whip and produce no less than three distinct loud cracks.
  17. Knock off.
  18. Race over to the table where the hot ‘beer’ cans are. Drink your ‘beer’ until can is empty without too much spillage. If you spill too much beer you will be ordered to drink another. When finished place can on table to finish event.​
​Road Safety Commission Rescue Challenge - Teams of 2
The most common road accidents in the region are single vehicles running off the road (60%). Many of these also involve drink-driving, lack of seatbelts and/or fatigue. Indigenous people are more than twice as likely to have a transport-related fatal injury than non-Indigenous, and fatality risk remains high with age, while declining among the non-Indigenous community. Initiatives involving emergency medical services are key to managing trauma on rural and remote roads, so get involved and promote your local volunteer emergency services and help us reduce road trauma in the region!
​Rescue scenario
A single vehicle has run off the road; a person is trapped inside. Your team of two will be the first responders!
  1. Wake up to incessant phone noise (in swag).
  2. Walk carefully to ‘appliance’ while putting on kit and drinking cold water.
  3. Shout NEE NAA NEE NAA for 1minute in ‘appliance’ while proceeding to the scene.
  4. Request road closure.
  5. Put on P2 mask, safety glasses, helmet and gloves.
  6. Make scene safe, tap in stabilising blocks within 2 minutes.
  7. Extract dummy and perform CPR for 1 minute, then place dummy on a stretcher.
  8. Set up lights and tie recognised knot within 2 minutes.
  9. Report to OIC.
  10. Return carefully to ‘appliance’ and park it, ready for the next team.
  11. Drink half a cup of cold black tea.
  12. Wash face.
  13. Go back to bed!



​Kununurra MotoX Club Barrel o'Bikes
Cloverleaf barrel race.
​Two competitors per heat.
Twelve competitors maximum, entrants may ride horses or motorbikes.
Ord Agricultural Equipment Hay Stacking
Junior competitors:     10-15 years old                            Open competitors:     16 years & older
Object
The object of the game is to stack up to 20 bales of hay (open) and 15 bales (junior) to the greatest height in the shortest time possible. One team member must finish seated on top of the highest bale and the stack must stand on its own for 5 seconds to qualify.
Bales must be picked up and carried (not thrown) 5 meters to the stacking area. Teams then construct the highest possible stack using as many of the bales as desired.
Teams may hold the stack to keep it from falling after the 5 second time limit has expired to enable measuring.
​Time Limits
Teams will have a maximum of 5 minutes in the heats and 3 minutes in the final to construct their stack. A whistle will sound once to indicate 30 seconds to go and then twice to signal time up.
At the final whistle teams must stop building and one team member must sit on the top bale of the stack.
Judging
If more than one team finishes with the stacks the same height, the fastest team will be the winner
The two highest and fastest teams will compete in the finals.
The judge’s decision is final!